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Places in the World Where Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide Are Legal

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Get this: You are dying; in horrendous pain; no hope; you’ve said your goodbys. But, unless you live in Netherlands (Green), Belgium (Red), Luxembourg (Purple), Oregon and Washington (Yellow) you can’t make the decision to die via euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

In the USA, only Oregon and Washington gives you back your own right. Yup… should be your right. Otherwise, you and your family are at the mercy of the medical community, politicians and the clergy.

Jimi Hendrix got it right: “I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. “

3 Baby Boomer Presidents And Marijuana IS Still Illegal – Huh?

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Legalize marijuana, right? Wouldn’t you have thought that Clinton / Bush / Obama would have figured this one out? Isn’t this why we HAVE Baby Boomer presidents?

That’s what many of us wanted and thought. But, it seems that in addition to our presidents, not all of us actually do. According to a poll by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research:

“The poll found that respondents identifying themselves as Republican and over 65 years old were more likely to support using federal resources “to arrest and prosecute individuals who are acting in compliance with state medical marijuana laws*. ” More than 80 percent of the youngest respondents, voters under 34, favored “respecting state medical marijuana laws.”

*These are the same people, mostly Republican, that preach that individual states should have the right to pass their own laws as in less federal government – like they scream it. That is, I guess, unless, they don’t like pot.

Want more? Read Kush (yes there is a Kush Magazine.)

I Don’t Want To Live Forever

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David Ewing Duncan discusses the opportunity and issues surrounding our increasing life expectancy in “How long do you want to live?” that’s running in today’s New York Times.

Here is the comment I posted on the Times site:

“I am just now finishing writing the book, “Boomercide: From Woodstock to Suicide” in which I discuss my decision to use suicide as a life planning tool. In my research, I have discovered that I am not the only Baby Boomer thinking this way.

Mr. Duncan mentions some of the issues that will confront society if people have extended life expectancies. For me the biggest issue of them all is — who is going to pay for all of these extra years? Retirement funds won’t last; Social Security can’t last; Medicare will end as you know it today (it will end as you know it any way) and your kids probably don’t want you and your spouse, and maybe the in-laws too, mooching for another 50 years.”

How long do you want to live? I agree with most people that 80 years sounds about right.

 

No Tubes Please. IT’S DNR For Me. Yes, This Is My Arm.

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I’ve been thinking about getting my first tattoo for over a year. My book has a chapter on what everyone should have (advance directives, DNR, will, some savings cause Social Security isn’t going to cut it, etc.) I thought, hey, why not get inked.  Plus, I live in Portland one of the most tatted cities in the country.